They’re lying to prevent their economy from collapsing and the government thereafter. Boarding people up in their homes and crematoriums running night and day. It’s a massive coverup effort.
Likely this was a bioweapon that escaped from their lab and they are refusing to let the CDC or WHO in to investigate the cause. This endangers the entire planet and when Senator Cotton asked some simple questions he was attacked by the Washington Post from spreading “conspiracy theories.”
They need to be rid of about a quarter billion of their people, but failed to account for modern mobility (even in a dictatorship like China) spreading it beyond the desired bounds.
Finally the markets have noticed... Now people in power will start taking this seriously.